@olivia

Yeah, a bunch of posts got deleted and some peoples messages stopped showing up for a day.

As for games, I am in a similar boat. I think the last triple-A game I played new was Skyrim, since then I mostly stick to old games I know I like or smaller releases on steam every once and a while. Lack of time has a way of refining our palates…[Read more]

Hey @irishcelticredflowercrown thanks for reposting all that stuff. Before I continue on with the critique, I did want to answer the question you had before it vanished (and I want to keep this thread separate to keep text bloat down)

“PS. I have been having some trouble with one particular narrative I want to include, but now I’m not so sure a…[Read more]

@irishcelticredflowercrown

Hey, I think I am ready to finish the critique. If you still have the emails of my messages would you mind posting them back for me? I want to get back to where I left off. 🙂

@irishcelticredflowercrown

That is some good news at least.

@irishcelticredflowercrown

HEY, THIS ONE POPPED UP! FYI, you should have my messages in your email (maybe in your junk section) if you have email notifications turned on. I didn’t think I did and the popped up there anyway.

@rose-colored-fancy

Awesome, thanks. 🙂 And I hope so too, it was probably over 6k words…

Speaking of which, @irishcelticredflowercrown, I have the last portion of saved to a word document, so if you need me to post it again I can.

@rose-colored-fancy

Yikes, that is really discouraging. Is there a way we can contact someone? I had a lot of writing critique that just got lost…

@irishcelticredflowercrown

@rose-colored-fancy

Hey, so something really weird has happened, a bunch of our posts are gone, and looking throughout the forums, it looks like a lot of posts are gone. It looks like the the entire forum got reset to a week ago, is this on my end? are you gals getting this too?

@olivia

Thank you 🙂

@rose-colored-fancy

I think the edge the Victorians have is A) they had years of (less) blemished history to draw from and B) they decided to wear it. Not only that, but have grand paintings of them wearing it. lol.

Don’t know who Turtle is, but it sounds like fun 😀

Yeah, I know what you mean.

Those scenes are great, brings i…[Read more]

@irishcelticredflowercrown

Hey, sorry for the wait, I had a really long week.

I read what you wrote and I really liked it! It is engaging, tense, and makes me excited to read more!

There were a few things that took me out of the story a little bit. First – and this really could just be a ‘me’ thing – introducing a fantasy setting and then a…[Read more]

@irishcelticredflowercrown

haha, thank you! I can’t say I pictured David Attenborough while writing it, but I will definitely take the compliment XD

Really? I didn’t know that was a thing. I mean, yes, sun is good for you, just wear sunscreen, lol. And if they still don’t want to, you can tell them that I personally discovered that if you…[Read more]

@rose-colored-fancy

Oh, I am sure. Especially because it was Greece, and as we know well today, no one can spin a yarn of absolute BS better than a young philosopher or starving artist. lol.

That sounds like a fun premise, and if she wove in actual characters for middle-grade, hats off to her! It is a delicate balance making characters both…[Read more]

@irishcelticredflowercrown

No worries 🙂 https://storyembers.org/groups/fantasy-writers/forum/topic/prologue-to-my-wip-book-series/

Yeah, California is expensive… Beautiful country with diverse biomes… but an absolute pain to live in, lol. Also, if you get sunburned in Ireland, USE SUNSCREEN HERE. Fortunately, you can get SPF 70+ stuff that…[Read more]

@irishcelticredflowercrown

If you can’t find it, I can always link it 🙂

The authors’ works sound very interesting, I might just check them out.

Very cool! I’m an American from sunny southern California, but most of genetics are Scottish/Irish and I have the sunburns to prove it, lol.

Your magic system sounds a bit like Full Metal Alchemist,…[Read more]

@irishcelticredflowercrown

Pleased to meet you as well 🙂 and thank you! If you are curious, my prologue/creation story is in the Fantasy section of the forums (it might be burred at this point though, lol)

I haven’t heard of them, what kind of books do they write?

Irish and Celtic mythos are fun to draw from, and contrasting that with what…[Read more]

@rose-colored-fancy

HAHA “Well, you see, we don’t know what that skull is, so the black blob really is just our fear of the unknown which we must confront with courage and logic.” – that potter trying to get his piece sold, probably.

Never heard of that book, is it any good?

I only ever read the first book, and it was so long ago I…[Read more]